A Rainy Dragon Day (HB) by Julie Völk, Julie Volk
30.00 NZD
Category: Children - Picture Book
What's more perfect than a day on the sofa while the rain patters on the windows? I'm just settling down with books, cocoa, and my long-haired dachshund, when the doorbell rings. It's Fred the dragon, hoping to use the bathroom. There's nowhere suitable for a fastidious dragon. After rejecting all the ...Show more
Bold Types by Deborah Coddington & Jane Ussher
70.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
A tribute to 32 truly independent bookshops throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, from north of Auckland down to Dunedin, and coast to coast. Jane Ussher’s photographs show every bookstore in its unique nature — including behind the counter, smoko rooms, the mess which tells the hardworking story behind the ...Show more
Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams
43.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
MONEY. The object of our desires. The engine of our genius. Humanity’s greatest invention. Whether we like it or not, our world revolves around money, but we rarely stop to think about it. What is money, where does it come from, and can it run out? What is this substance that drives trade, revolutions a ...Show more
Playground by Richard Powers
38.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
She had the ocean. And the ocean absorbed all her hope and excitement, all her panic and pain and love, into a place far larger than anything human. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the ...Show more
Tasty by Chelsea Winter
55.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
New Zealand's bestselling and most-loved cookbook author Chelsea Winter is back with her superb seventh cookbook, Tasty! It's crammed full of scrumptious plant-based and refined sugar-free recipes that you can use with whatever additions work for your family. Chelsea is renowned for her totally deliciou ...Show more
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
39.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
A new biography from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, chronicling the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room ...Show more
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrea di Robilant
38.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World. The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian Affair and Autumn in Venice. DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealt ...Show more
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
If you knew when you were going to die, what would you do differently?It all begins on a flight from Hobart to Sydney. The flight will be smooth. It will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off the plane.But almost all of them will be changed forever.Because on this ordinary flig ...Show more
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
39.00 NZD
Category: History
Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare de ...Show more
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet...' When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among t ...Show more
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
It is 1938 and for Manod, a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales, the world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore, and rumours of submarines circling beneath the waves, have villag ...Show more
Cherrywood by Jock Serong
38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary
From multiple award-winning author, Jock Serong, comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. 'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way ...Show more